Take Me Down

Take Me Down (Knight Brothers #3)- Carly Phillips
Amazon Digital Services
Release Date: June 11, 2019

Rating:
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Synopsis: Parker Knight is merely existing.

Emily Stevens is trying to start over.

He didn’t plan to meet her.

She wasn’t looking for someone like him.

With Parker stranded in the small mountain town, his path collides with Emily's reigniting desires they'd both long forgotten. 

Opposites don’t merely attract … they combust.

Can two damaged people living in different worlds find a reason to stay together before their time runs out?

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Parker Knight has merely been existing since the accidents that took his skiing career and his fiancée- working behind a desk at the family firm because he feels like he owes his brother and has no other plan.  When he gets stranded in a tiny mountain town in Colorado he finds more than just a bed and breakfast: he finds Emily Stevens.  Emily is going through the motions, putting her own plans on hold to try and help her father with a rundown B&B.  She's learned the hard way not to trust city slickers and instantly dislikes Parker on sight.  But spending time together might be just what each of them need.

Take Me Down is possibly one of the best Carly Phillips books I've read in awhile.  Both Parker and Emily really spoke to me as people who have either put their own lives on hold to help loved ones or who have stopped looking for what makes them happy because they worry they don't deserve happiness.  It doesn't take long for them to recognize in each other emotionally damaged kindred souls.  What was great (for me as a reader) was that they recognized that in themselves, not just each other.  Parker in particular was refreshingly emotionally honest with himself once on an enforced vacation. 

The chemistry between Parker and Emily was instant and exciting and fortunately they didn't fight it for too long.  Both go in thinking this is a brief vacation fling, but are surprised to discover deeper feelings and emotional connections. It was ironic that as open and honest as they were, communicating fears and pain that they never shared with anyone else, neither was willing to talk about the elephant in the room: if a city slicker and small town baker love each other, how do they make it work long-term?

A light, fun, emotional deep and satisfying, fast-paced read, Take Me Down will thrill long time Carly Phillips fans and be a great introduction for newcomers to a consistently delightful author!

I received and ARC of this book from BookSprout in exchange for an honest review